Bibliographies

World War One British tank. Source: http://galleryhip.com

A list of all cited source materials, known as abibliography, must be
included at the end of your essay. A History bibliography is divided into two sections:primary sourcesandsecondary
sources. Each of these sections need to be inalphabetical order.

Each bibliographical reference needs:

the author's last name followed by their first initial(s)

the year of publication

the name of the work (in italics)

the publication details

Here are examples of how to list correctly different types of source information.

Bliss, S. (n.d.). The effect of emotional intelligence on a modern organizational leader’s
ability to make effective decisions. Retrived from http://eqi.org/mgtpaper.htm.

Referencing Ancient Sources

If you are studying Ancient History and you have referenced ancient writers in your essay, those works need to appear in your bibliography also. However, the format of the bibliographical
reference is slightly different.

You need to state:

the ancient author's name

the name of the name of the translator (in brackets)

the name of the ancient work (in italics)

the publication details of the modern translation

For example:

Appian (John Carter, trans). The Civil Wars. New York: Penguin,
1996.

Referencing a Source Found in Another Source

On some occasions you find a source in the pages of different source. Your first task should be to try and quote the source you have found separately from the book that it is in. Do this, look in
the bibliography of the book in order to gain the necessary details.

However, if you cannot find the information necessary to create a separate bibliographical entry, you will need to create a bibliographical entry that acknowledges the book that the source was
found in.

To do this you will need:

as many of the details that you can find of the source you are using. (Anything you don't know is left out).

the full bibliographical details of the book it was found in, along with the page number in the book where the source was found. This is preceded by the phrase "As found in" and the entire
bibliographical reference is placed in brackets.

For example:

Nixon, R. (1969). (As found in US Government Printing Office 1969,Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard Nixon,Washington D.C.: US Government Printing Office,pp. 903).

An Example Bibliography

Bibliography

Primary
Sources

Appian (John Carter, trans). The Civil Wars. New York: Penguin,
1996.

Department of Defence. (1959).Strategic Basis of Australian Defence Policy. Canberra: Department of Defence.

White, H. (2007). Four Decades of the Defence of Australia: Reflections on
Australian Defence Policy over the Past 40 Years. (As found in Huisken, R & Thatcher, M. (eds).History as Policy: Framing the Debate on the
Future of Australia’s Defence Policy. Canberra: ANU Press and Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, pp. 163-187).